Brazil, February 15, 2015—The Landless Workers Movement of Brazil expressed its profound rejection of the unilateral interventionist sanctions made by the US government against the homeland of Bolivar.

PRESS RELEASE

“… I will not allow you to insult or disparage the Venezuelan government and its rights. Defending them against Spain has decimated a large portion of our population, but the rest are willing to face the same fate. Venezuela will defend itself against the rest of the world in the same way it fought Spain, if the rest of the world offends it.”

Letter of protest from the liberator Simón Bolívar to Mr. Irvine, US government agent

Angostura, October 7, 1818

The Landless Workers Movement of Brazil expresses its deepest rejection of and raises its voice in protest against the infamous unilateral sanctions that the US government, faithful to its imperialist calling, is imposing upon the Venezuelan government and people.

Continuing to believe that Latin America and the Caribbean are its back yard, and making use of the ineffable Monroe Doctrine, the US government is seeking, today, in the midst of the 21st Century, to apply coercive measures in an attempt to destroy the transformative political process that has been underway in Venezuela for more than 15 years.

The imperialist government underestimates the irrevocable will of a people to be free and to transform itself into a more just society. It does not understand that, faithful to its tradition of liberation, Venezuela, under the leadership of its supreme commander Hugo Chávez, forged its own alternative to the predatory system of transnational capitalism that has kept the peoples of the world submerged in misery and exclusion for centuries. (The actions of the US government) are therefore trampling on the principles of self-determination and sovereignty enshrined in the charter of the United Nations.

In this new scenario of imperialist aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution, against the will of the Venezuelan people and against the government headed by its worker president, Nicolás Maduro, the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil expresses its firm and unwavering support for the process of construction of Bolivarian socialism expressed through new forms of participatory democracy where Popular Power is the central objective.

Recalling the words of Bolívar above, today we tell the powers concentrated in the State Department and White House that the Landless Workers Movement will not hesitate to defend, to the ultimate consequences, the aspirations of liberation passed down to us by our liberators that today are being materialized through the Bolivarian Revolution.